BRIEFS
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday November 24, 2009
Twins shiftedThe Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna have been moved out of intensive care and into a normal ward. A Royal Children's Hospital spokeswoman said they were sharing a room and settling into their new environment. "The girls are getting to know the new staff who will be caring for them," she said. "Both girls are in a stable condition."Foreign cyber-spiesThe Federal Government's computer network has almost certainly been targeted by cyber-spies from other countries, the Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, said yesterday. "A lot of it is from organised crime," he said, "but we can't be naive: some of it is, we suspect, from nation states." Mr McClelland was speaking at the launch of a new cyber-security strategy. One of its aims is to improve cyber-security in the suburbs. Mr McClelland warned that many home computer users would probably not even realise their personal information was being stolen from their hard drive.UN seat opposedThe Coalition will abandon Australia's campaign for a seat at the United Nations Security Council should it win the next election. The Opposition's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Julie Bishop, said the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, had not set out a convincing case for why Australia should bother seeking a seat at the main UN decision-making table. Australia last held one of the temporary seats on the Security Council in 1986.
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